For those unfamiliar with card making terms, a sketch refers to a predetermined layout as a guide for your card. The latest challenge at AAA Cards is for a clean and simple card following such a sketch (pic below). Sketches are great recipes for those new to, or not confident in, card making and scrapbooking. There’s the optional extra to use flowers. Here’s my take on the theme:

I stamped my background vines in distress oxides. I sprayed each of the flowers with distress oxide sprays and spritzed them with water to get the oxide appearing. Once they were dry, I stuck them down and added liquid pearls to the centres. I used a stencil to add the small circles with watercolour markers and added stickles glitter glue to give them a little bling. Finish by stamping the sentiment in archival ink.

Used in this sketch card

• Creative Expressions Singles rubber stamp: Ivy Corner [UMS122]
• Colour-Me paper flowers
• Ranger / Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink: Mowed Lawn
• Ranger / Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Sprays: Seedless Preserves / Mustard Seed / Salty Ocean
• Letraset AquaMarkers: Royal Purple / Sunburst Yellow / Perwinkle
• The Crafters Workshop stencil [TCW278S]
• Ranger archival ink: Jet Black
• Ranger Stickles glitter glue: Stardust
• Sentiment from Craftwork Cards (discontinued)
• C6 card blank